Alma Linux - FP 5.0.14D4

[Richard D. Williams]

I will try that.

Richard

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> On Apr 8, 2023, at 7:43 PM, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Apr 08, 2023, Richard D. Williams via Filepro-list wrote:
>> Here is what will work for Alma-9, Centos7, or Centos8:
>> 
>> As root or sudo.
>> 
>> yum install glibc-langpack-en
>> yum install glibc.i686
>> yum install zlib.i686
>> yum install libxml2.i686
>> chmod 755 /appl
>> chmod 755 /appl/fp_v5.7.03.04D4
>> cd /appl/fp/FPFILES
>> cp -fp libfpodbc.so /lib/
>> cp -fp libtermcap.so.2 /lib/
>> cp -fp ld-2.17.so /lib/
>> cp -f libodbc.so.1.0.0 /lib/
>> cp -f libstdc++.so.6.0.19 /lib/
>> cd /lib
>> ln ld-2.17.so ld-2.17.so.2
>> ln libodbc.so.1.0.0 libodbc.so.1
>> ln libstdc++.so.6.0.19 libstdc++.so.6
> 
> Copying files like this to the system's /lib folder seems
> dangerous to me:  I would think adding the /appl/fp/FPFILES
> directory to the 'p' startup files:
> 
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/appl/fp/FPFILES:$LB_LIBRARY_PATH"
> 
>> If anyone needs the files in FP_FILES (my own folder) which are used here,
>> please contact me off list.
>> 
>> The chmod 755 /appl and /app/fp are a must.
>> 
>> Richard D. Williams
>> (713) 931-9938
>> 
>> 
>>> On 4/5/2023 5:17 PM, Douglas Campbell via Filepro-list wrote:
>>> I'm not familiar with Alma Linux, but I am running 5.011aD4 on the latest 64-bit revision of Oracle Linux 7 in their cloud infrastructure.   I only had to install a couple of legacy libraries to get the binaries to run without issue.
>>>